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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution will get you up to speed quickly on Fedora linux, a securely designed Linux distribution that includes a massive selection of free software packages. Fedora is hardened out-of-the-box, easy to install, and extensively customizable -- and this book shows you how to make Fedora work for you.

Fedora Linux takes you deep into essential Fedora tasks and activities by presenting them in easy-to-learn modules. From installation and configuration through advanced topics such as administration, security, and virtualization, this book captures the important details of how Fedora Core works--without the fluff that bogs down other books and help/how-to web sites. Fedora Linux offers a concise task-based approach to teach you how to use Fedora as both a desktop and server operating system.

In this book, you'll learn how to:

Install Fedora and perform basic administrative tasks

Configure the KDE and GNOME desktops

Get power management working on your notebook computer and hop on a wired/wireless network

Find, install, and update any of the thousands of packages available for Fedora

Set up a server with file sharing, DNS, DHCP, email, a Web server, and more

Work with Fedora's security features including SELinux, PAM, and Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Whether you are running the stable version of Fedora Core or bleeding-edge Rawhide releases, this book has something for every level of user. The modular, lab-based approach not only shows you how things work-but also explains why--and provides you with the answers you need to get up and running with Fedora Linux.

Chris Tyler is a computer consultant and a professor of computer studies at Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where he teaches courses on Linux and X Window System Administration. He has worked on systems ranging from embedded data converters to Multics mainframes.

I was very interested to read this book. I have had varying levels of results with Fedora Core x and hoped that this would help me to get around the problems I had had.

Unfortunately, it was too general to be of much help. This book faces the same problem every Linux book does: strip away the distro specific trappings and Linux is Linux is Linux.

The install chapter was far too general and didn't actually offer too much advice and guidance on installing the distro. There were excellent sections on Yum and creating RPMs from source, but there were also general Bash programming sections and other sections covered in Rute and other similar books.

If you know of a complete newbie with some computer experience, this book is ideal for them. If you or your friend is an experienced Linux or Fedora user then I would steer clear of this book.

The negative comments aside, the book was very clearly written and the layout was great - every exercise has a lab exercise and an easy to understand "how it works" section.

A good book as an opening to your Linux library, handy to get you over a few hurdles with the distro, less ideal if you already have some Fedora/Red Hat knowledge and a well stocked library.

It is my Fedora bible. From it I learned to bypass the setup defaults to permit me to better configure the hard disk partition for re-installs. It is my bed time reading.

Has nice chapter about fonts and font management, logical volume management (lvm) and a best configuration recommendation.

Grammar, for the best part, was good, without the usual defaults that are demonstrated by American Authors. (He says "I am going to talk to you about xxx" whereas the American authors say "I am going to talk to you on xxx". (I always sat on a chair or on a xxx. The good grammar makes the book easy to follow. I love the labs. These labs reinforce the learning.